Trenton neighbors say Riverview landfill odor is out of control

The Riverview Land Preserve is a for-profit landfill which makes the city money.

The town and its residents benefit from what's dumped at the landfill on Grange Road. However, for the people who live across the street in the city of Trenton, the only thing they get from the landfill is the smell. They say the smell is overwhelming and worse than ever.

"I had a friend that I work with that said, 'You know, you're going to be by the landfill and you're going to hate it in the summer," said Terry Hall, who recently purchased a house in Trenton across from the dump.

Even though she lives so close to the landfill, Hall says she doesn't typically smell it and when she can it's not that bad. Thirty of her neighbors disagree.

Those Trenton neighbors have filed a class action lawsuit against Riverview's landfill and more homeowners could join the list.

They are accusing the landfill operators of upping the smell by upping production of methane gas to be sold for electricity, but not putting some of the profits back in for odor controls.